Position: Oracle Retail MFCS Testing Lead
Location:Remote / Occasional Travel to Client Location
Employment Type: Contract
Role: Oracle Retail MFCS / RMFCS Testing Lead
Position Overview:
Driscoll's is seeking an experienced Oracle Retail Merchandising Foundation Cloud Service (MFCS/RMFCS) Testing Lead to lead end-to-end quality assurance and testing activities for Oracle Retail merchandising solutions.
The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on experience with Oracle Retail MFCS/RMFCS, retail business processes, integration testing, data validation, regression testing, defect management, and test leadership. The candidate will work closely with business stakeholders, functional teams, developers, integration teams, and offshore/onshore QA teams to ensure high-quality delivery across Oracle Retail implementations and enhancements.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the overall QA/testing strategy and execution for Oracle Retail MFCS/RMFCS implementations, enhancements, integrations, and releases.
- Develop and maintain comprehensive test strategy, test plans, test scenarios, test cases, and traceability matrices.
- Lead SIT, system integration testing, functional testing, regression testing, end-to-end testing, and UAT support.
- Validate critical Oracle Retail business processes including:
- Item and foundation data management
- Supplier and location management
- Purchase orders
- Cost and deal management
- Inventory management
- Stock ledger
- Replenishment
- Sales Audit
- Trade Management/import processes
- Financial and downstream integrations
- Lead testing of integrations between MFCS and external systems such as POS, WMS, ERP/financial systems, supply chain applications, and other retail platforms.
- Perform and/or coordinate API, file-based, batch, database, and data validation testing.
- Validate inbound and outbound interfaces, transformation logic, file layouts, data mappings, and error handling.
- Develop SQL queries for backend data validation and reconciliation.
- Analyze test results, identify root causes, and work with technical/functional teams to resolve defects.
- Manage defect lifecycle using tools such as Jira, ALM, or equivalent.
- Establish testing metrics, dashboards, quality KPIs, defect trends, and readiness reports.
- Coordinate testing activities across onshore/offshore QA teams.
- Review requirements and functional specifications to identify gaps and ensure adequate test coverage.
- Drive defect triage meetings and communicate testing status, risks, dependencies, and issues to project leadership.
- Support data conversion/migration validation and reconciliation activities.
- Support regression testing associated with Oracle Retail cloud releases and application changes.
- Coordinate UAT preparation, business-user support, defect resolution, and production readiness.
- Mentor QA analysts and establish consistent testing standards and best practices.
- Collaborate with business users and retail SMEs to ensure test scenarios accurately represent real-world merchandising processes.
Required Skills & Experience
- 8+ years of overall QA/testing experience, preferably in retail technology.
- 5+ years of hands-on Oracle Retail experience, with strong expertise in MFCS/RMFCS.
- Strong understanding of Oracle Retail merchandising business processes.
- Experience leading QA/testing teams for large-scale Oracle Retail implementations.
- Strong experience with:
- SIT
- UAT
- Functional testing
- Integration testing
- Regression testing
- End-to-end testing
- Data validation/reconciliation
- Batch/file testing
- API testing
- Strong SQL skills for backend data validation.
- Experience testing retail integrations and complex data flows.
- Experience with defect management and test management tools such as Jira, ALM, Zephyr, qTest, or equivalent.
- Strong understanding of SDLC/STLC and Agile methodologies.
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and leadership skills.
- Ability to work independently in a distributed/remote project environment.
Preferred / Nice-to-Have Skills
- Experience with Oracle Retail ecosystem components such as Sales Audit, Trade Management, Replenishment, Inventory, Stock Ledger, and related Oracle Retail applications.
- Experience with Oracle Retail cloud implementations and SaaS release cycles.
- Experience with Oracle Retail data conversion/migration.
- Experience with REST/SOAP APIs and integration testing.
- Experience with XML, JSON, CSV, and retail batch/file interfaces.
- Experience with Oracle databases and complex SQL queries.
- Experience with automation tools/frameworks such as Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, or equivalent.
- Experience with CI/CD and DevOps testing practices.
- Knowledge of retail supply chain, merchandising, procurement, inventory, and financial processes.
- Experience working with offshore/onshore delivery teams.
Leadership Responsibilities
- Own QA deliverables and testing timelines.
- Define testing approach and resource requirements.
- Establish quality gates and entry/exit criteria.
- Conduct test case and defect reviews.
- Provide daily/weekly testing status to project leadership.
- Escalate critical risks and blockers proactively.
- Ensure adequate coverage for business-critical processes and integrations.
- Drive continuous improvement of testing processes and automation.
Education
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or a related discipline preferred.
Ideal Candidate Profile
The ideal candidate is a hands-on Oracle Retail QA/Test Lead who combines deep MFCS/RMFCS functional knowledge with strong testing leadership, SQL/data validation, integration testing, and stakeholder-management skills. Experience working on complex retail transformation programs and coordinating distributed QA teams is highly desirable.